The Dawn of Asia
Release Date: 1964-12-19
Rating : 0/10
Duration : 687 minutes
Genres : Drama, History, TV Movie
Director : Nagisa Ōshima
Writer : Mamoru Sasaki, Tsutomu Tamura
The Dawn of Asia (アジアの曙) is a TV drama consisting of thirteen episodes about the trans-China/Japan collaboration of revolutionaries in the early twentieth century. It was Nagisa Oshima’s rare attempt to direct a TV drama in a social atmosphere in which Japan was embracing postwar prosperity as well as the effects of permeating mass media. Making an effort to reach out to the mass audience through a seemingly conventional method of filmic representation, Dawn of Asia takes up the epic of trans-Asiatic solidarity while challenging nationalism on both sides.
Cast
Kei Satō
Rokkō Toura
Akiko Koyama
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Noriko Matsumoto
Hōsei Komatsu